Sefali Roy¹* and Chitra Nayek²

¹Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, The West Bengal Health University, India

*Corresponding Author: Sefali Roy, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Nursing, The West Bengal Health University, India.

Received: July 03, 2023; Published: August 22, 2023

Abstract

The researcher conducted a descriptive study to assess” relationship of postpartum sleep quality and breastfeeding self-efficacy among the primi mothers in the postpartum unit in selected Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal”. Objectives of the study to assess the Breastfeeding Practices among primi mothers, to assess the Breastfeeding Self -Efficacy among primi mothers, to determine the relationship between postpartum sleep quality and breast feeding self-efficacy among primi mothers and also to find out the association between breast feeding practices among postnatal primi mothers with their selected demographic variables The investigator selected 100 postpartum primi mothers by using simple random sampling technique in selected hospital.

Valid standardized tool was used to collect data among postnatal primi mothers. The study findings reveal that majorities postnatal primimothers have very good sleep quality and confident about breast feeding self-efficacy. There is statistically significant relationship between postpartum sleep quality & breastfeeding self- efficacy as correlation value was (-0.3) and ‘t’ value t₉₈ =1.984 at 5% significance with 98 df. There was no statistically significant association between postpartum primi mothers sleep quality with selected socio demographic data as the chi-square is less than table value at 5% level of significance.

 Keywords: Postpartum; Primimother; Postpartum Sleep Quality; Postpartum; Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy

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Citation

Citation: Sefali Roy and Chitra Nayek. “Relationship of Postpartum Sleep Quality and Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy among Primi Mothers in Postpartum Unit in Selected Hospital, West Bengal". Acta Scientific Microbiology 6.9 (2023): 84-88.

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Copyright: © 2023 Sefali Roy and Chitra Nayek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.